Aug 08, 2024 - Sale 2676

Sale 2676 - Lot 9

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800

CHARLES EDWARD CHAMBERS (1883-1941)

[FOOD WILL WIN THE WAR]. 1917.


29½x19½ inches, 75x49½ cm. Rusling Wood Litho., New York.
Condition B+: repaired tears at edges, some into image with minor overpainting; creases, abrasions and replaced losses in margins.

Published by the U.S. Food Administration, this poster reminds immigrants of the beauty, promise and joy of arriving in New York Harbor in an appeal for their help saving food to feed the Allies. To reach as broad an immigrant base as possible, this poster appeared in several different languages including English, Italian and Hungarian. This is the Yiddish version.

New York p. 31, Magnes p. 49, Rawls p. 113, Theofiles p. 94 (var), Borkan p. 60, Gallo p. 92.